Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz

@adamsl

Base

Country

U.S.A.

Institutional affiliation

University of Southern California

Title

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Research interests relevant to game philosophy

My current research interrogates play as an ontological practice and commitment, and attempts to follow through on this commitment through both theoretical and practice-based production. More specifically, I am working on a number of games, of various shapes and sizes, that investigate the relationship between poetry, play, and games. This continues my research from my collection AFEELD (http://afeeld.com/), which will soon be re-released as a full-length collection by the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, in their Digital Originals series. In part, my past and current creative and theoretical work has explored poetry and poetics as a ready-at-hand form of ontological commitment, that is available to designers of all kinds and that is an alternative to narrative and simulation]systems-driven ontological practices.

Adam is the Chief Operations Officer of the award-winning design studio, RUST LTD., creators of the best-selling virtual reality game, Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades. He has designed and consulted for clients such as Dave and Buster’s, the Independent Television Service, Nokia, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, and Toyota. He is also the author of a full-length collection of digital poetry and games, AFEELD, which was published by the Collaboratory for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech in 2017. Adam currently teaches game studies and game design courses at the University of Southern California, where he serves as Director of the Playwork Lab.